{"id":132787,"date":"2026-03-02T16:02:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/iran-envoy-says-tehran-will-not-target-kenya-in-retaliatory-strikes-against-us-israeli-attacks\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:02:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:02:50","slug":"iran-envoy-says-tehran-will-not-target-kenya-in-retaliatory-strikes-against-us-israeli-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/iran-envoy-says-tehran-will-not-target-kenya-in-retaliatory-strikes-against-us-israeli-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Envoy says Tehran will not target Kenya in retaliatory strikes against US-Israeli attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya Feb 2 \u2013 Iran Ambassador in Kenya Ali Gholampou says Iran will not target Kenya even as it continues to execute retaliatory strikes targetting US military assets across the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a media briefing in Nairobi, Gholampour noted that Kenya does not provide a US military facility with a magnitude to attack Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that we will. Because we have had long historical friendly and mutual relations with the the great people and the Government of Kenya and we do our best to preserve that relation. And I do not believe that the Kenya will provide such a facility to attack Iran from its land. This is something that I assume it will not happen, absolutely,\u201d said Iran\u2019s top diplomat..<\/p>\n<p>The Kenya Defence Forces in partnership with the United States Government last month conducted a ground-breaking ceremony for a 10,000-foot Runway Expansion Project at Kenya Navy Manda Base, Manda Bay, Lamu County.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Tehran will not back down in the face of what he called foreign aggression.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iran stresses right to defend itself<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi told ABC News on Sunday that no country\u2019s leader has the right to tell Iran not to respond to the ongoing U.S.-Israeli massive strikes on Iran, in response to Trump\u2019s earlier warning that Iran should not retaliate.<\/p>\n<p>Araghchi said Iran has every right to defend itself and the Iranian forces \u201care capable enough to defend our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Sunday that \u201cIran considers it its legitimate duty and right to avenge the perpetrators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the same day, Ali Larijani, the powerful head of Iran\u2019s Supreme National Security Council, warned that \u201ctoday we will hit them with a force that they have never experienced before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Israel, an Iranian missile attack killed at least nine people and injured dozens more in the central city of Beit Shemesh on Sunday, after a death the previous day near Tel Aviv. Three people were also injured on one of the main roads of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>A transitional leadership council composed of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, the head of the judiciary and a member of the powerful Guardian Council had temporarily assumed the duties of supreme leader following the killing of Khamenei, while a permanent successor is found for the supreme leader.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Feb 2 \u2013 Iran Ambassador in Kenya Ali Gholampou says Iran will not target Kenya even as it continues to execute retaliatory strikes targetting US military assets across the world. Speaking during a media briefing in Nairobi, Gholampour noted that Kenya does not provide a US military facility with a magnitude to attack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}